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Cloud-Based Accounts Payable: Benefits & Considerations for Businesses
Nearly everyone uses the cloud in their personal lives, from storing photos and accessing financial accounts to sharing documents and watching movies. But when it comes to the business world, the
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Cybersecurity for Businesses: Strengthening Your Defenses Against Scams
In today’s world it’s not a matter of if an individual or business will cross paths with a fraudster, but when, so making yourself a harder target to scammers is key. It’s important to under
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Arizona's Rapid Growth: Impact on Housing & Business | [Your Company Name]
Research shows Arizona has more than 60,000 new residents from California alone each year, making it one of the fastest-growing states in the country according to U.S. News & World Repor
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Prioritizing Financial Goals for Beverage Distributors: A Strategic Guide
The only constant in life is change. Nothing stays the same, even for companies that have been established for decades. With that reality, business owners tend to closely watch how market co
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Business Fraud: Risks, Impacts & Proactive Strategies
The impacts of fraud can be damaging and include massive financial and reputational losses. Most organizations acknowledge the nature and severity of the threat of fraud. In many instances,
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Communicating Health Benefits: A Guide for Employers
Tip 1: How COVID-19 and the CARES Act may impact your healthcare benefits When there’s an unexpected disaster or pandemic like COVID-19, there is already plenty to be concerned about, so wor
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Business Continuity & Fraud Prevention: Adapting to Disruptions
The COVID-19 global pandemic has altered the way many businesses are operating for at least the near-term. Many companies have had to shut down or limit access to offices, encourage or manda
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Denver Business Growth: Insights from UMB's Paul Williamson
Even during the pandemic, Colorado saw a significant growth in both loans and deposits in 2020. We talk with Paul Williamson, Colorado regional president, to learn what factors contributed t
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Business Planning in Uncertain Times: Navigating 2021 & Beyond
As a business owner, you wear multiple hats. One moment you’re the accountant, another moment, you’re managing your team of staff, and still another moment, you’re working directly with clie
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Protect Your Business from Email Fraud: A New Normal
More than 81% of financial professionals in the U.S. reported their organizations were targets of fraud in 2019, according to the Association for Financial Professionals’ latest survey‡ on p
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UMB Bank & Guetterman Brothers: A Successful Agribusiness Partnership
Guetterman Brothers Family Farms One family who makes their living in ag is the Guettermans, a multi-generational family who owns the Guetterman Brothers Family Farms operation in Bucyrus, K
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UMB Bank Participates in FedNow Instant Payments Pilot
The Federal Reserve Banks announced in early 2021 that partners from the FedNow Community, including UMB Bank, will participate in the FedNow Pilot Program to support the development and ado
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Big Tech Revolutionizing Agriculture: Trends & Innovations
I have been amazed by the technology that so many farms are implementing today, which is particularly impressive considering that many of the farmers who are using advanced tech on the farm
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HSA Education for Remote Employees: Boosting Benefits & Tax Savings
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives in many ways, including how companies communicate with their employees. Many employees don’t know how to use health savings accounts (HSAs)
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Navigating Agricultural Market Volatility: Essential Tips for Farmers
Farmers are acutely conscious of the cyclical returns in agriculture. Factors beyond their control can swing prices too much or too little. U.S. row crop producers are currently experiencing the
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The Evolving Landscape of Employee Benefits: Post-Pandemic Shifts
The employer benefits space is changing and there is currently a shift to “enviable benefits” – ones that go beyond traditional health and retirement coverage. Many companies, especially tho
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Cybersecurity Best Practices: Protecting Yourself Online
Almost everything we need to do can be done online, and while it’s extremely convenient to have the world at your fingertips, it also makes us more vulnerable to hackers. While cybersecurity
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Commodity Marketing Strategies for Farmers: Key Takeaways from Agribusiness Experts
To share these best practices more broadly, we recently sat down with Travis Brunner‡, president of Sunrise Agribusiness Solutions‡, in an exclusive webinar hosted by Brownfield Ag News‡. Du
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Navigating Change: Adapting Business Models in a New Normal
This piece on adapting UMB’s business model for today’s realities was featured in the Kansas City Business Journal‡. Since March, I’ve been able to step back and analyze where w
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Navigating Business Finance & Planning in the Post-Pandemic Era
I’m sure you already know how this article begins: these are challenging times and the impacts are reverberating across industries. We’ve been inundated with news about the short- and long-t
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